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FIGMENT PROJECT INC

FIGMENT PROJECT INC (New York) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $742,848 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY ($460,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$154k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$743k
Net assets
$175k
5/8 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Figment Project Inc does

Mission

The mission of figment project, inc. Is to build community through the participatory arts, inspiring personal and social transformation by creating cultural events and experiences in a spirit of particpation and inclusion.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Figment: a participatory arts festsival in cities around the united states and in several international locations.

    $74,598 spent
    100% of program spending
  2. Installations: summer-long program on governors island includes the minigolf course, sculpture garden, and pavillion.

The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $74,598.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($271k) Expenses 100 ($241k) Net assets 100 ($113k)2018 Revenue 76 ($206k) Expenses 104 ($252k) Net assets 59 ($67k)2019 Revenue 80 ($217k) Expenses 75 ($181k) Net assets 105 ($118k)2020 Revenue 62 ($168k) Expenses 57 ($138k) Net assets 133 ($150k)2021 Revenue 32 ($86k) Expenses 31 ($74k) Net assets 145 ($163k)2022 Revenue 43 ($117k) Expenses 69 ($167k) Net assets 105 ($118k)2023 Revenue 36 ($97k) Expenses 47 ($112k) Net assets 73 ($83k)2024 Revenue 30 ($80k) Expenses 39 ($95k) Net assets 60 ($68k)2025 Revenue 57 ($154k) Expenses 96 ($232k) Net assets 155 ($175k)
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Revenue (57)Expenses (96)Net assets (155)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $155k to $257k (+66%).

$118k
$77k
$124k
$163k
$172k
$125k
$155k
$257k
$175k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 6% · 2019 8% · 2020 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

95% of FIGMENT PROJECT INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$30k
’17
−$46k
’18
$36k
’19
$30k
’20
$13k
’21
−$49k
’22
−$15k
’23
−$15k
’24
−$78k
’25
9.1
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

20172018201920202025
Listed911121111
Joined·+3+1+0·
No longer listed·101·
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $3k → $200k.

2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of FIGMENT PROJECT INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

FIGMENT PROJECT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

96% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund FIGMENT PROJECT INC.

62%
largest funder
98%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 66% · 2019 100% · 2020 83% · 2021 98% · 2022 100% · 2023 75% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

33% of FIGMENT PROJECT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

100% of FIGMENT PROJECT INC's grant income comes from New York funders.

IL
NY
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’20
’21
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $251k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

FIGMENT PROJECT INC is better cushioned than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−50% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve9.1mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−7% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding FIGMENT PROJECT INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $30k on record.

Federal$30k
grants $30kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$30k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like FIGMENT PROJECT INC

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In New York

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

62% of spending goes to programs.

Program 62%Management 38%Fundraising 0%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

94%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

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Questions and answers

Who funds FIGMENT PROJECT INC?
FIGMENT PROJECT INC (New York) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $742,848 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY ($460,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FIGMENT PROJECT INC have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $742,848 in grants to FIGMENT PROJECT INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FIGMENT PROJECT INC?
UNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY is the largest funder on record, with $460,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FIGMENT PROJECT INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 8 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing